Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor - BHIP Therapist

Job Title

Help

Duties

Works with patients and families who are experiencing basic emotional, medical, and social problems utilizing individual, group, and family counseling skills.

Work with more complex problems are done under close supervision with guidance from the social work supervisor to assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of patients and their family members, and to formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying the patient's problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and assistance needed.

Basic knowledge of psychosocial treatment modalities and, under supervision, implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups to achieve treatment goals. This requires judgment and skill in utilizing supportive, problem solving, or crisis intervention techniques.

Advanced knowledge of and mastery of theories and modalities used in the specialized treatment of complex physical and mental illness.

Incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.

Determine priority for services and provide specialized treatment services. Must have advanced and expert skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations.

Provide subject matter consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in the specialty area, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.

Teach and mentor staff and students in the specialty area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications.

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm

Telework

Ad hoc

Functional Statement #

53525-0 & 53526-0

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives

Not Authorized

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS):

Not Authorized